Neighborhood Watch
Amazon’s ‘Neighborhood Watch’ Might Be Turning Police Officers Into ‘Reddit Moderators’
Over 18 months, one LAPD officer received more than 10,000 emails from the social platform affiliated with Amazon’s Ring
Ko Bragg
Investigative Editor
Ko Bragg is a writer and editor based in and focused on the U.S. South—Mississippi in particular. Before The Markup, she was the Race & Place Editor at Scalawag, where she launched Pop Justice, a newsletter on how popular culture warps our understanding of policing and justice. Prior to that, she was a general assignment reporter at The 19th.
You can find her work in The Atlantic, “Frontline,” Harper’s Bazaar, Columbia Journalism Review, Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, and more.
Working for an Algorithm
What Happens When Nurses Are Hired Like Ubers
“You basically just hope that nothing goes wrong,” a nurse said about a shift with the app Clipboard
Hello World
Dropout Risk System Under Scrutiny After The Markup Report
The Center for Democracy & Technology makes a case for civil rights protections
Hello World
Private Companies Like Axon Expand Their Reach With Public Dollars. We Want to Look Into That
Ese Olumhense, a new reporter at The Markup, outlines her vision for investigating the ways governments acquire and use emerging technology
Axon’s Ethics Board Resigned Over Taser-Armed Drones. Then the Company Bought a Military Drone Maker
The CEO's vision for Taser-equipped drones includes a fictitious scenario in which the technology averts a shooting at a daycare center
News
Pyramid Schemes Are Illegal. MLMs Are Not. What About the Tech That Powers Them?
Multi-level marketing companies have captured the public’s attention in recent years. Behind them is a little-known industry of software providers
Hello World
The Writers’ Strike Over AI Is Bigger Than Hollywood
Debates on generative technology touch every industry, including ours
Hello World
Stitching Your Own Safety Net
Black kids in Wisconsin are supporting each other in ways the state hoped an algorithm would
Machine Learning
False Alarm: How Wisconsin Uses Race and Income to Label Students “High Risk”
The Markup found the state’s decade-old dropout prediction algorithms don’t work and may be negatively influencing how educators perceive students of color
Pixel Hunt
“Out Of Control”: Dozens of Telehealth Startups Sent Sensitive Health Information to Big Tech Companies
An investigation by The Markup and STAT found 49 out of 50 telehealth websites sharing health data via Big Tech’s tracking tools
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